The insulator-metal transition in supported clusters
- 1 August 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Phase Transitions
- Vol. 24-26 (1) , 203-214
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01411599008210230
Abstract
The size-dependent insulator-metal transition in supported metal clusters manifests itself as a deviation from inverse radius dependence of the core-electron binding energy. Data for mono- and polydisperse supported gold clusters give evidence that the transition to the metallic state occurs in clusters containing circa 100 atoms. Simple theoretical considerations account for this observation.Keywords
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